Blue screen of death during editor

[Miss]

Has anyone seen this before? It seems to be a problem with my grahpics card, I don't know much more.. When I'm building a track for TM2 Canyon it just sometimes BSOD's out of nowhere. This only happens when I build maps in Maniaplanet, I never ever have this on any other game, nor when I play Trackmania normally.

[HaagseSmurf]

It can perhaps be handy to use the debug version next time when you make a track in the editor.
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Greetz,

[Miss]

I'm aware of that build and I would've attempted to get it to BSOD again on that build, but since it's a BSOD in some driver and not just a Maniaplanet crash.. I might try it later though.

[TMarc]

Does it happen with any track for any title?
Did you watch the coppers count to see if it is a certain limit?
Are you using excessively the terraforming?
In other words, does this tendentially happen on similar editing moves, or rather randomly without any logic?

A trace of what you did would be good to know for the developers and for the users.

[Miss]

It seems to happen randomly especially when I place objects but also when I press the Save button.. It seems very random, I've had it happen on very empty maps as well. I'll try to get a log the next time it happens.

[Demented]

How much ram do you have installed and what version of windows are you running?
Also, do you blow the dust out of you pc's fans every month or two?
(Not doing that regularly can cause overheat crashes).

[Miss]

16 GB, Win10, put a compressor on the thing recently.. Also, GTX 970. I don't believe it overheats, but I'll have to doublecheck that.

[Miss]

Aha! So I got it to bsod, and it was indeed during lighting calculation, as the log ends abruptly:

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[Hms] PrecalcLighting in 0:00.14(Mn::Sc.CC) 4 Cells, 2 344 Trees, 42 ball lights, 265 spot lights.
[Hms] PrecalcLighting in 0:00.14(Mn::Sc.CC) 4 Cells, 2 348 Trees, 42 ball lights, 265 spot lights.
[Hms] PrecalcLighting i

This happened when I placed a block. No overheating, just a random lighting calculation.

I also took a photo of the bsod:

[TMarc]

Strange. I also have a GTX970 and relatively recent drivers. 2 weeks ago I let kids of a colleague use my pc for some mapping, mostly in Stadium, and we had no crash.

Try the following: reset the game settings file Default.SystemConfig.gbx by deleting it. And also delete the files in Appdata of Maniaplanet, folder d3d9cache or so (I'm currently not on my Pc, I can only tell later or tomorrow the exact location) and only then start Maniaplanet.
Possibly.also clear the cache in the launcher application.

[Miss]

Thank you for the suggestions!